Facebook Scrape / Pull Posts

[t2van]

If there is an open group (i.e not locked behind joining etc)

Is There a way to pull or scrape ALL posts created? I don't mind the format, sorted or not. I just want every single post ever posted in a public group. I don't own the group, nor am I admin or have any admin rights in any group I want to get posts from.

Can't get Claude to do it. I tried scrolling and doing a select all copy and paste but I can't be arsed scrolling to the end as there's 1000s of posts.

Don't mind a paid or free service I just want every post in text so I can run some comparisons and get some "free" data

 

[shattered world]

Do you have a rough idea of how many posts are in the group? Hundreds? Thousands?

Sometimes you can pay a VA to go through and either do long full page screenshots or copy the text manually. It’s tedious but they’ll do it.

 

[t2van]

Do you have a rough idea of how many posts are in the group? Hundreds? Thousands?

Sometimes you can pay a VA to go through and either do long full page screenshots or copy the text manually. It’s tedious but they’ll do it.

Thousands, on average 90 are posted a day and the group has over 300k members!

Id need say 3 years worth of posts as I figure certain topics come up again and again.

VA might be an idea..

 

[shattered world]

Thousands, on average 90 are posted a day and the group has over 300k members!

Id need say 3 years worth of posts as I figure certain topics come up again and again.

VA might be an idea..

Damn brother yeah that’s a lot to go through.

If you find a good VA they might still do it. I think I saw someone here offers an admin service for repetitive tasks but forgot who it is. Other than that I’ve got no other suggestions.

 

[t2van]

Damn brother yeah that’s a lot to go through.

Yeah! There's a reason for it

If you find a good VA they might still do it. I think I saw someone here offers an admin service for repetitive tasks but forgot who it is. Other than that I’ve got no other suggestions.

It's OK; we've got some work experience starting next week, so I'll have them spend a day on that rather than a VA - I thought we could get AI to crawl and pull what we needed but seems it's all be cut off from robot texts which is a shame.

 

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[Dopious]

Never done it, but this one says it can do FB Groups, has 500 scrapes for free to test it out https://apify.com/apify/facebook-groups-scraper if it is FB you are talking about.

 

[t2van]

Never done it, but this one says it can do FB Groups, has 500 scrapes for free to test it out https://apify.com/apify/facebook-groups-scraper if it is FB you are talking about.

Oh nice share!

I think that will do it, will have a test and let you know. Cheers for that.